Hello Z. I have seen this momentum before, during what was known as the Arab Spring, as an attempt to throw out repressive regimes. Only more death and chaos followed it. I’m not optimistic about this momentum in the USA. And I call it USA, not America, because America is a continent and the USA is only a small part of that. Yet acts like it is superior and in charge of said continent. I digress. This momentum I hope it carries through, but, unfortunately people have short attention spans these days and a ‘ what’s in it for me’ attitude. In prisons in the USA it is racially segregated and willingly so by the participants of it, should there be an uprising there too, a coming together of the races, the gangs and the other ways they divide and rule? . Separately you are easy to control. What should be addressed, straight away and without then need to protest to bring it before the public consciousness is police brutality. That needs to stop and straight away. All cops should wear go pro cameras, and lose their pensions and jobs and medical advantages in the case of assault or the death of a member of the public. They are supposed to protect and serve the public, not themselves. As a person married to a person who does not share my skin colour, religion or culture, and our children who blend beautifully what we have, I am cautiously optimistic about the future. But most change in life, actually even from birth is violent, painful and uncomfortable, so we will have more years of this to ride through. I’m not a yank myself, , I’ve often thought that the baton was dropped in 1969 after the murders, of Dr King, Malcolm X and Bobby Kennedy. There have been no real mentors in civil rights matter since, briefly of course The Panthers held the public’s trust for a while then imploded with infighting and CIA interference. As each outrage hit the newspapers, the usual black leader would address each point, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, StokelynCarmichael, but back they went, never really punching through. And everyone sort of had amnesia until the next outrage. Watts Riots, Rodney King, Eula Love, Latisha Harlings, now Ahmud Arberry George Floyd and Rayshawn Brooks, names no one beyond their communities would ever have known, now they are known globally. They protested in Paris, Rio de Janerio, London, Africa. The butterfly effect of change, the USAs dirty laundry shown in public, Teump doesn’t even address it. Just punches the air with labels, Antifa, Thug, Communist, Socialist, anti patriot. There is an energy in the streets. But we will have to wait and see how it ends. As Dave Chappelle said in his YouTube clip 8:46 the streets are talking, and he is going to leave it to them because they are beautiful. All the best. T
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I have seen this momentum before, during what was known as the Arab Spring, as an attempt to throw out repressive regimes. Only more death and chaos followed it. I’m not optimistic about this momentum in the USA. And I call it USA, not America, because America is a continent and the USA is only a small part of that. Yet acts like it is superior and in charge of said continent. I digress. This momentum I hope it carries through, but, unfortunately people have short attention spans these days and a ‘ what’s in it for me’ attitude. In prisons in the USA it is racially segregated and willingly so by the participants of it, should there be an uprising there too, a coming together of the races, the gangs and the other ways they divide and rule? . Separately you are easy to control.
What should be addressed, straight away and without then need to protest to bring it before the public consciousness is police brutality. That needs to stop and straight away. All cops should wear go pro cameras, and lose their pensions and jobs and medical advantages in the case of assault or the death of a member of the public. They are supposed to protect and serve the public, not themselves.
As a person married to a person who does not share my skin colour, religion or culture, and our children who blend beautifully what we have, I am cautiously optimistic about the future. But most change in life, actually even from birth is violent, painful and uncomfortable, so we will have more years of this to ride through. I’m not a yank myself, , I’ve often thought that the baton was dropped in 1969 after the murders, of Dr King, Malcolm X and Bobby Kennedy. There have been no real mentors in civil rights matter since, briefly of course The Panthers held the public’s trust for a while then imploded with infighting and CIA interference. As each outrage hit the newspapers, the usual black leader would address each point, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, StokelynCarmichael, but back they went, never really punching through. And everyone sort of had amnesia until the next outrage. Watts Riots, Rodney King, Eula Love, Latisha Harlings, now Ahmud Arberry George Floyd and Rayshawn Brooks, names no one beyond their communities would ever have known, now they are known globally. They protested in Paris, Rio de Janerio, London, Africa. The butterfly effect of change, the USAs dirty laundry shown in public, Teump doesn’t even address it. Just punches the air with labels, Antifa, Thug, Communist, Socialist, anti patriot. There is an energy in the streets. But we will have to wait and see how it ends. As Dave Chappelle said in his YouTube clip 8:46 the streets are talking, and he is going to leave it to them because they are beautiful.
All the best.
T